Wireworking-tool.



Patented- J-une I9; woo.

No. 65|,9-s.

C'.; STOOLFIRE. WIREWJRKINGl TOUL.-

` (Application filed May 27, 1899:) (No Model.)

N UNITED STATES i PATNT OFFIC.

OIARLES STOOLFIRE, OF MULHALL, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

WIREWORKING-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters recent No. 651,896, dated Jim 19, 1906.

Application filed May 27,1899. Serial No. 718,557. (No model.)

carrying out the invention is set forth in the following full, clear, and exact description,

terminating with claims particularly specifying the novelty.

This invention relates to wireworking, and more especially to the tools used therein; and the object of the same is to produce a handy implement,wl1ich may well be called a farmers tool. l f

To this end the invention consists in the tool described below and containing in one implement a number of devices useful to the agriculturist, more especially in the building and repairing of wire fences, although other tools are incidentallyT shown and described.

The following specification sets forth the preferred manner of constructing this tool, as shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figurel is aside elevation of the tool with its jaws open, showing in dotted lines how a wire may be gripped, as for stretching, and how a stick may be placed in the wrench for securing leverage. Fig. 2 is a plan View showing the wire-cutter in the act of severing a wire, which is dotted. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail of one of the jaws of the tongs or pincers, illustrating the construction thereof, as for splicing wire or for ringing hogs. Fig. 4 is a detail showing the front end of the jaws as about coming together to clasp a small eye therein. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional View showing how the grooves grasp a nose-ring.

The tool consists in anfouter member O, whose handle is slotted for the reception of an inner member I, the two being pivoted where they cross, as at P. One end of the handle of one member, preferably the inner one, is formed with a V-shaped recess, as

seen at 1, and this constitutes a Wrench. The corresponding end of the other member is forked, as at 2, to form a claw for pulling nails or tacks. Over the upper edge of the inner member near the pivot is formed a groove 3, which cooperates with other grooves 3 in the inner faces of the two parts of the outer member, so that when the two members are open and a short piece of straightwire passed across the groove 3 and the members then closed the wire will be bent into the form of a staple.

4 4 are two' lugs with beveled and sharpened adjacent corners, which pass each other as the members are closed together, thus constituting a wirecutter, as will be clearly understood. In one face of the jaws forward of the pivot the outer member is provided with a deep beveled notch 5, whose inner wall 5 is struck on a curved line eccentric to the pivot, while the inner member Vis provided with a cam-face 5", adapted to bind a wire obliquely against the eccentric wall 5 when the two members are closed together. This constitutes a clamp, as for a fence-wire, and after so clamping it the tip of one of the jaws is placed against a support, such as a post, and the other end of the tool moved bodily, so as to stretch the wire. Y

6 6 are the arms of the members forward of the pivot, which arms are obviously approximated like the jaws of a pair of tongs when the members are brought together. As best seen in Fig. 4, the jaws 6 are cut through with longitudinally-alined notches 7, whose walls converge toward the pivot. The meeting faces of said jaws at opposite sides of these notches are provided with two pairs of parallel cavities 9, standing near the edges of the jaws and extending out to their outer ends and transversely across the meeting faces of said jaws 6, and on both sides of the notches `7 are formed oppositely -disposed notches S, standing near to and parallel with the outer ends of the jaws. These notches 8 cross and intersect the cavities 9 and form means whereby a wire may be grasped and twisted.

This tool is preferably made of wrought-y the exact proportions and detailed construc tions of the various parts are not essential.

The uses of the various incidental tools described above are well known, and most of them are of especial advantage in building and repairing wire fences or in working wire. In splicing the meeting ends of two wires IOO the jaws are opened slightly and the notches 7 passed astride'said ends, and then the entire tool is rotated on its longitudinal axis to draw the two wires across each other and interlock them by twists at the point where they are crossed- 2. A wrewoi-'king tool comprising two crossed and pivoted members forming jaws forward of their pivot, which jaws are provided with deep alined notches, oppositelydisposed longitudinal cavities in the faces of the jaws at oppositesides of said notches and The transverse notches 8, together with the longitudinal cavities or grooves 9, are of especial advantage in a tool for the purpose set forth above. As seen in detail in Fig. 4, after a small eye t' is formed in the end piece of wire this eye can be passed over the projection at the outer corner of one of the jaws and thelatter closed together, so as to hold the eye thereinQbnt not to crush the wire. The toolcan then be rotated or moved to carry the wire aroundv some forming device, such as a round stick, whereby a hog-nose ring is produced. In Fig. 5 is shown how each of twol of such nose-rings is grasped simultaneously by the grooves or cavities 9, and it will be clear that by passing these astride the cartilage of the snout both rings can be inserted instantaneously.

What is claimed as new is- 1.- A wireworking f tool comprising two crossed and pivoted members having deep longitudinal alined notches in the ends of its jaws, and transverse cooperating notches across the faces of said jaws near their tips, as and for the purpose set forth.

` extending out to the ends of the jaws, and

oppositely-disposed transverse notches in the' faces of the jaws extending ont to the sidesv of the latter, as' and for the purpose set forth; 3. A tool of the character described com `prising two crossed andv pivoted members CHARLES STOOLFIRE.

Witnesses:

L. MARKS, HARRY W. FORD'. 

